Keeping the record straight
What was once the biggest mall in the world is turning into a big pile of rubble.
According to this article, Randall Park Mall was abandon after the Great Recession in 2009. Non-sense.
Randall Mall was once a huge, beautiful complex housing everything any shopper would need. Until!!
Just like many other venues in the country, Randall Mall fell on hard times mostly because of the crime rate in that area. I will label its demise 85% crime rate 15% sign of the times.
At one time there were so many car thefts in parking lot of the mall that the North Randall police were placed on the roofs of the buildings with binoculars spotting the car thieves. Some say at its peak it escalated to about 5 or more cars a day that were either broken into or stolen.
On top of the car thefts, fights broke out on a daily basis in the mall between rival gang members.
That is just what the shoppers needed; getting beat up in the mall or having their cars broken into or stolen while spending their hard earned money.
Slowly but surely as the incident increased all of the merchants decided to get their hats (move out).
Randall Mall is just another in the long list of victims that fell to changing neighborhoods. Its decline in business had very little to do with economic times.
Another example of people destroying their own neighborhoods/environments is The Flats in Cleveland.
The Flats at one time was a hustling and bustling area on the shores of Lake Erie that was loaded with bars and restaurants where people of all ages, families and singles enjoyed going to for a day or night out on the waterfront. There is something about water that attracts people. It supposedly has a calming or relaxing effect on people. Except.
It didn’t take long for the social rejects, druggies and the drunks to ruin a good thing. There were a few killings, on top of fights, stabbing and shooting on a weekly if not daily basis. Patrons minding their own business were getting thrown into the river; yes the same river in 1969 that caught on fire due to excessive pollution.
Just like at Randall Mall; the purveyors of pugilism and death finally ran all the good guys out of town.
ABOUT TRAVEL
The East Bank of the Flats:
In the summer of 2000, three people drown in the river after a night of revelry, cementing the East Bank’s growing reputation as a place of street crime and violence. The final blow was struck in 2001 when a city safety task force raided nine clubs on the East Bank, boarding up six of them on the spot. Club owners sued, but the East Bank of the Flats has never recovered.
It really doesn’t make any sense to me how some deranged, mentally incompetent people will burn down and destroy their own neighborhoods because they have nothing better to do or for their illogical reasoning of getting back.
Investors spend millions of dollar in these areas to improve the living conditions for the citizens and some nut cases with more idle time on their hands then they need, destroy their own neighborhoods.
So went The Flats into a ghost town just as Randall Mall bit the dust.
Giving a little credit to Cleveland and county; the pollution was finally cleaned up after a few years and the fish that swam in Lake Erie were once again eatable, depending on how brave the consumer was.
This trend is nothing new that neighborhoods, entertainment venues, mall and cities are destroyed by people that have a hard on for life. They think the world owes them something and they are going to take out their revenge anyway they can.
I would like to see or government put some of the money they are pissing away into EDUCATION to try and salvage some of the younger kids that so idolize these off the chart characters.
If they started right now it would take generations to turn things around but we have to start sooner than later.
I don’t have much hope in that happening. The politicians are too busy with their personal agendas.
I don’t think that anyone in this country 40 years ago would have foreseen the deplorable our county is in today. For the people that live in Nob-Hill things have never been better. For the average middle class and below citizens the long range outlook looks rather bleak.
The Goomba Gazette 